My problem with deconstructions is that the charactes are SOOOO stupid, or have such contrived personal issues. Or the story might have unrealistic plot-twists. It ruins the point of a deconstruction.

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There's no way someone could watch the ending of School Days and think, "Oh! Of course, that's what would really happen in a harem." It's so extreme that it becomes unrelateable. No one learns anything from their actions because everyone has more common sense than the show's characters do.

I disliked every character in the show, that's impressive in a way.
Everybody got what they deserved in the end.

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Ok, perhaps saying everybody got what they deserved in the end is a bit harsh, given they were, after all, only kids, and kids are stupid, and there were no adults to give guidance.

Nonetheless, I can't say it broke my heart that things turned out the way they did in the end. I kept wishing for things to go differently, but every time I thought somebody would do something good, they disappointed me. I knew they weren't going to, mind you, I just thought it would be nice if they would. By the end, I couldn't help but feel that, if the characters didn't deserve what they got, what they got was, at least, fitting for all involved.

I forget the characters names, and I don't care enough for them to look them up. Instead, I will give them descriptive titles!

Man whore: He never thought about anyone else, so removing his head was fitting.
Lying bitch: She was a liar from start to finish, so having her lie exposed was poetic.
Female doormat: She was unwilling to face the fact that the man whore would never commit himself entirely to her, so it was fitting for her to end up with only a part of him. I will admit that she was a nice girl and didn't deserve to be treated like that, but she also enabled it.

It's sad, but if any of those three characters had been honest, they would all have ended up happier. That's probably the most important lesson of the show, if one wants to assume it was meant to have a lesson - dishonesty has a price.

Also, the show wasn't really shocking in any way, even the ending. Everything was led up to as the show went along.

not cuz of the gore, i love gory anime that has a shock factor.. although i had already known how it would end prior to watching it .. it was the reason i picked it up in the first place

i hated it cuz all the characters where unlikable..
i hated every one of them and could barely stand watching the whole thing because of that
i only finished it cuz i really dislike leaving anime incomplete.. and thought the sooner i get it over with the better

I really didn't like it at all. I don't normally watch harem anime, so I guess I'm not the target audience, but I really didn't like it. The only reason I picked it up was because I heard a lot of amazing things about it. In my opinion, the only thing the show has going for it is the shock factor. In fact, it's so forgettable that I can't even remember anything about it, save for the ending.

That show caught me by surprise. I sat down and watched all the episodes all together and afterwards I was speechless. It was a really good anime, but holy crap the story is not what I thought it was going to be. I read a comment from another anime and the person said that it had a small dark under tone, that is by far a lie.

Haha xD Not sure if people are sarcastic or just really like the damn thing xD! I didn't watch all of it, because I couldn't get through it, it was too "thick" for me to keep pushing that "next" button :L

But one thing for sure is, in the anime Makoto is a son of a ***** -.- I hate that character, will probably stay up in my most hated characters for a long ass time.

But I hear good things about the Visual Novel, I will probably try it out:P